Monday, November 01, 2004

i would say it took me only 3 full weeks to get the hang of hibernate and then intergrated in a project it with spring. Compared to a drilling 6-8 months to get on top of J2EE. The features of spring/hibernate compared to CMP using entity beans in an application server(JBoss) are numerous, one standout feature for me is use hibernate all the way, with entity beans the special sql grammer just plained sucked when i tried to make complex queries, i often found my self writing BMP's with SQL in it., not to mention performance... one thing that spring lacks is security, it is important to think of spring as the application framework only!, and drop it into a application server like JBoss, weblogic. the application server will be the 'server service provider'. Interesting note, i used xdoclet for both j2ee and hibernate.